This
last week we heard the big and bold announcement from our National
Intelligence Estimate (NIE), that Iran had shut down its nuclear weapons
program clear back in 2003. Allegedly Iran quit due to international
pressure. It didn't take long before Bush backed the Intelligence
statement publicly yet mentioned the continued danger of Iran.

Of course, the piranhas are circling worldwide with glee. Ahmadinejad
is claiming victory and celebrating, while the far lefters are running
with the speed of light to the alleged breach of Intelligence regarding
Iraq. You know, the weapons of mass destruction that no one can find.
It's the big movie, "Intelligence got it wrong with weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq," then the sequel, "Intelligence got it wrong
with a nuclear weapons program in Iran."

The question is now, what is really going on here? Are we talking
about another Bush moment? Is it all about his incompetence or an
Intelligence breakdown over and over?

Could it possibly be something a little different, like a manipulated
plant of disinformation by Iran? According to Ken Timmerman of Newsmax.com
that is exactly what has gone on. He points out in his article that
although the NIE stated Iran had shut down its nuclear weapons program
in 2003, that it was based on a single, unvetted source, which was
through a foreign intelligence service. This source had not been interviewed
by us in the US. Timmerman goes on to suggest that Newmax sources
in Tehran believe that our Government has fallen for "a deliberate
disinformation campaign", cooked up by the Revolutionary Guards, who
put out fake information and fed it to the US through fake senior
diplomats in Europe who were really Revolutionary Guard plants.

Who else is weighing in? According to the Jerusalem Post, Defense
Minister Ehud Barak, although acknowledged the intelligence assessment,
he still felt that Iran today was a central threat to the state of
Israel and the world. In my opinion Israel has the best Intelligence
in the world. They have had to to survive.

Regardless of the details of when and if Ahmadinejad started or stopped
a nuclear program, one can still reference and listen to a steady
stream of words and threats from his own mouth. Then there is his
exhaustive terrorist past and current attacks and killing of our troops
in Iraq. Regardless of our consistency and reliability of intelligence,
there is a steady flow of lies, terrorist behavior, funding of other
terrorist groups we do know for sure and intent to kill by Ahmadinejad.
Remember, this is the rational guy who says the Holocaust never happened.

Once again the US has egg on its face internationally due to this
latest Intelligence announcement. My gut level is this. It is too
convenient and too predictable to suddenly believe that our Intelligence
track was all wrong, including Israeli Intelligence. It also doesn't
pass the laugh test that nothing is going on with nuclear weapons
when Ahmadinejad was bragging less then a month ago about 3000 centrifuges
and saying that nothing would stop his nuclear plans. Then there is
his track record of terror; kidnappings clear back to the 79-hostage
situation in Tehran. Further, we see his threats to Israel, disbelief
of the holocaust and belief that he is a key figure in an end of day's
battle to bring the Madi out of the well. Hark! This guy is a regular
star on Mayberry RFD.

Along with believing that the dangers are still real and in our face,
I also believe it is paramount that we do improve our Intelligence
community. Dr. Harvey Cushner came on my show last night and said
just that. Our Intelligence community has really changed over the
last 50 years with the onset of the Internet and Satellite capability.
We can virtually read a paper in a dark room from space now. The problem
he suggested was that too many agents don't know what to do with all
the information we get. We also saw years ago the push to handling
Intelligence in more and more "polite" ways. Our sources had to be
ever so clean. Never mind you are dealing with crime families in 3rd
world countries. In other words, we have been pushed, lectured, taught
and preached about boxing with proper rules, while the other side
just puts cyanide on their gloves and fingers that have explosive
knife tips. Rules to Islamic Fundementalists have always been made
to be broken, knowing inside and out that we, the enemy will be distracted
and trapped in guilt to keep all the rules.

We
must put real professionals again in Intelligence, with real people
training our agents and recruiting the type of employees who can be
rude and mingle in with the bad guys to get REAL info that is needed.
I'm not talking about creating and manipulating "bad" agents but ones
who can "act" and infiltrate into the scary organizations and get
to the bad guys. We don't need statistical probabilities for Intelligence,
manipulated by polls and media. We also must not fall for what I believe
is total manipulation by Iran to distract the world away from their
nuclear program. To believe Ahmadinejad's efforts have stopped or
are benign is to slit our own throat and perhaps Israel's!

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Finally, we need to really take this opportunity for a moment to step
back and assess how we are approaching this world war in the first
place and what is going wrong. We must realize that Islamic Fundamentalism
is world wide and has an agenda to forcibly convert or kill us. It
isn't about one or two countries, or Bush, it's about stopping the
spread of Islamic extremist, domination! That may mean coming down
hard on certain Mosques where subversive talk goes on against our
country and troops; standing up to CAIR and other activist Muslim
groups who intimidate, sue and threaten; watching and taking apart
the Muslim training camps scattered across our country where weapons
training is occurring and finally, outlawing Sharia law in this country.

Dr. Laurie Roth earned a black belt in Tae Kwon
Do. In the late 90's, Laurie hosted
and produced a successful PBS television show called "CD Highway" that
aired nationally on 130 TV stations.

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We
must put real professionals again in Intelligence, with real people training
our agents and recruiting the type of employees who can be rude and mingle
in with the bad guys to get REAL info that is needed.